TMC
10-14-2023, 10:34 PM
To give you a better idea (https://popculturereferences.com/five-times-multiple-tv-shows-debuted-the-same-year-based-on-the-same-movie/):
In 1983, America was just fascinated with the wackiness of a MAN doing housework (https://parkslopetherapist.com/stay-at-home-dad-stigma/) in the hit film, Mr. Mom.
It was such a novel idea (a man doing DOMESTIC work (https://crimereads.com/brad-parks-where-are-the-stay-at-home-dads-of-fiction/)? Whaaaaaaaa?!) that it inspired two sitcoms in 1984. There was Charles in Charge, about a MALE live-in nanny, starring Scott Baio, and there was Who’s the Boss?, about a MALE live-in housekeeper (https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/4/1/142/37063/Television-s-Mr-Moms-Idealizing-the-New-Man-in), starring Tony Danza (https://familyfriendlydaddyblog.com/2014/06/30/this-close-to-being-mr-mom/). A year later, Growing Pains was basically the same concept, as well (“The HUSBAND works from home, while the MOM goes to the office?!!? Whaaaaaa?!”).
In 1983, America was just fascinated with the wackiness of a MAN doing housework (https://parkslopetherapist.com/stay-at-home-dad-stigma/) in the hit film, Mr. Mom.
It was such a novel idea (a man doing DOMESTIC work (https://crimereads.com/brad-parks-where-are-the-stay-at-home-dads-of-fiction/)? Whaaaaaaaa?!) that it inspired two sitcoms in 1984. There was Charles in Charge, about a MALE live-in nanny, starring Scott Baio, and there was Who’s the Boss?, about a MALE live-in housekeeper (https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/4/1/142/37063/Television-s-Mr-Moms-Idealizing-the-New-Man-in), starring Tony Danza (https://familyfriendlydaddyblog.com/2014/06/30/this-close-to-being-mr-mom/). A year later, Growing Pains was basically the same concept, as well (“The HUSBAND works from home, while the MOM goes to the office?!!? Whaaaaaa?!”).